The Meridian Description Editor
Figure 1 shows the Meridian WYSIWYG HTML Description Editor. Using this editor, you can create professional looking auction descriptions without having to know HTML. The toolbar at the top gives you all the standard tools for formatting text, creating tables, loading templates, creating links, and adding images. In the main window, you can view your description in design mode, raw HTML, or a preview of what it will look like in a browser. Finally, when your description is finished, you can save it which tells Meridian that your auction is ready to list according to you listing schedule.
Figure 1: The Meridian HTML description editor

Creating a description
Step 1: Writing your description
When you first navigate to the editor, you will notice that your default template along with any images you imported are automatically loaded. You can begin writing any description text by clicking in the area in the main editor window where you want your text to go. Note that you can only make changes to the description if the editor is in the "Design" view or the "HTML" view. Use the formatting toolbar to change the text properties, add hyperlinks (be aware of eBay's linking policies), add images, and add HTML controls (like radio buttons, dropdown boxes, etc) as you see fit. If you know HTML, and need a bit more control over your description layout, hit the "HTML" button to view the document in raw HTML. After editing the HTML, you can view your changes by switching back to the "Design" view or the "Preview" view.
(Optional) Step 2: Loading a template
If you have templates that you created using the template editor, hit the open button (see figure 2) to bring up the open file dialog. Navigate to your template, select the file, and open it. Your template will be loaded, and any images you imported will be merged into the template. Make sure you load the template before you do any editing, because you will lose your changes. When the template has successfully loaded, you may then proceed to edit your description as described in Step 1.
Figure 2: The open template button
(Optional) Step 3: Reloading the default template
If you get to a point where you need to start from scratch and reload the default template, you can hit the reload template button (see figure 3). Doing this will reload the default template and re-merge all your images. However, you will lose all changes you made to your description, so be sure this is what you want to do first.
(Optional)Figure 3: The reload template button
Step 4: Saving your description
When you are done editing your description and are ready to save it, hit the save button (see figure 4). This will update the status of your auction to "saved", and it will let Meridian know that your auction is ready to list according to the listing schedule you set up. If you set the list to be "When Submitted", your auction will list within a few minutes, so be sure that you are satisfied with you description first. If your auction is set up to list at a "Bulk Schedule" or a "Specific Schedule", you have until that time arrives to come back and make changes to your description if needed. Once you have saved your auction, you may now got back to the listing page (by clicking the listing tab) and create more auctions, or perform some other task by clicking an appropriate tab.
Figure 4: The save description button